[time-nuts] Spec An for phase noise measurements

[Matt Ettus]

On Jan 21, 2008 12:09 PM, John Miles <jmiles at pop.net> wrote:
>
> > Still, you should keep what you already have, and add a quadrature PLL and
> > LNA to it.
>
> As a more-concrete answer to your question, since you mentioned a need for
> coverage into the 6-GHz region, an 11729B/C and 8662A would actually be a
> good choice.  Together they'll still be much cheaper than the 8561E I'd
> recommend otherwise.  Figure $2500 at most for the 8662A and $1200 at most
> for the 11729B/C.

That's where you lose me -- the 8662A only goes to 1.28 GHz, right?
Do you use multipliers?

Matt